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[TR] Slate Peak - Clean Slate Couloir 02/21/2022


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Trip: Slate Peak - Clean Slate Couloir

Trip Date: 02/21/2022

Trip Report:

@thedylan and Dave Duyee and I skied the Clean Slate Couloir off of the N ridge of the N Peak of Slate Peak. Dylan wanted it to be a climb also, but it was just a point on the ridge... I wanted a peak too Dylan, but it wasn't to be. We parked ... wait, first I called in sick... then we parked at the White Salmon Snow Park and skinned briefly up Anderson Creek Road. Dylan had graciously scouted the trip the day before and even put in some skin track.

There was some of this:

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Ans this:

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And this:20220221_125413.jpg.8f49287cbbedcf367a6678b5932f4abe.jpg

 

But finally there was this:

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And then even some of all this:

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The snow was amazing and the fresh went down to about 2500' where we entered the woods. Thanks to Dylan for scouting it! If you don't know this one, it looks something like this:

 

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Gear Notes:
skis, booze

Approach Notes:
Short, but Cascadian.
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11 hours ago, JasonG said:

Weren't you, along with @dberdinka, the first to ski that @genepires?

A fun run when the bottom isn't too bony!

I do  not know if we were first on anything.  the usual mode is that Darin has a great idea for an adventure and I get to enjoy his hard work.  we did do some tour from mt herman down chain lakes and over and around and somehow got back down to the baker highway, maybe near the XC parking lot.   great day but to be honest, i had no idea where I was.  luckilly Darin waited for me to make sure I did not get lost.  I was on a old voille splitboard and he was on skiis, so if it was a first, it was a double first!

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On 2/23/2022 at 6:01 AM, genepires said:

nice.  thanks for the TR.

what are the dotted blue lines in that map representing?  ski routes or creeks?

The blue lines are from the topo, all I added is the red line. Dotted usually represents seasonal, or ephemeral, streams and solid are perennial streams. 

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12 hours ago, JasonG said:

A very good point.   Do you know of other names for those other than the couple (Clean Slate, Sweet Sweet Death)  @dberdinka came up with?  It seems like everything up there has a least a few names depending on which generation you are talking to.

i don't have this book infront of me, but wouldn't that info be in here?

https://beaconguidebooks.com/product/backcountry-skiing-mount-baker-washington/

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We skied those BITD when no one ventured beyond Herman Saddle, Bagely Basin held untracked powder for days, the low elevation snowpack was consistent and deep, Anderson Creek was routinely groomed and we had to slog around on telebindings that didn’t have tour modes.

once met a group of three Canadian guys in Anderson Creek on downhill gear.  They would routinely end their day of lift skiing by postholing to Herman saddle then ski/skate out Anderson Creek.  Don’t see that anymore!

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